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• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  work than you’ll be putting into your classes during term. Any of the ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as a meat tray at a party. You grab a couple slices of each kind, a few chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too. That's what I learned this past weekend, when MIT's Association of ... falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  would show an important additional side of you not already covered, you ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  "macrocommunity". I've written a number of entries on the importance of ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  importance of a particular task or technology, I’m more convinced I’m in the ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  and through the (snowy, this time of year) woods, before pulling into a ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  screen was perfect. No one had texted me anything of dire importance. The ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely ... list of things i did this year at cpw! i was kinda less involved than i ... ), but i genuinely think this was the most consistently enjoyable of the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011-2024 bore witness to my transformation from a directionless physics major into ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  most important of which is the Great Court. That's the place I head ... So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... learned quickly after joining the Admissions Office that it was important to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told ... 't necessarily regret? I think I had a lot of fair reasoning behind thinking I ... one of the "prestigious" schools that accepted me. It's as if even the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... , because their stories are deeply, heartwrenchingly important. i'm proud that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  chose it. I then made the very important decision of what to name the ... “socialize”, emphasized the importance of “rhythmic breathing” and gave me such ... instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  environment where I'll be pressured into spending obscene amounts of time ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold ... middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  come out of me. Lol.” How do I distill the last 15 years into one ... Community became one of the most important communities of my undergrad ... , I got into running in my 30s, racked up a collection of chronic and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025